4. How long shall they utter and speak hard things? The ungodly are not content with deeds of injustice, but they add hard
speeches, boasting, threatening, and insulting over the saints. Will the Lord
forever endure this? Will he leave his own children much longer to be the prey
of their enemies? Words often wound more than swords; they are as hard to the
heart as stones to the flesh; and these are poured forth by the ungodly in
redundance, for such is the force of the word translated utter; and they
use them so commonly that they become their common speech (they utter and speak them)—will this always be endured? And all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? They even talk to themselves, and of themselves, in
arrogance of spirit, as if they were doing some good deed when they crush the
poor and needy, and spit their spite on gracious men. It is the nature of
workers of iniquity to boast, just as it is a characteristic of good men to be
humble.
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